The Fruits of Slaughter

This book had the potential to become a god before it left Luoyang. But after leaving Luoyang, it started to go off-topic, and all the original stunning and clearly well-researched folk customs, horror, and suspense elements disappeared. It turned into vulgar themes of dragon energy, willpower, and vying for supremacy. Very disappointing. I don't know what the author was thinking; it's just a pity.

I just want to say the author has a problem. In the plot, adult men and children are killed, and the protagonist doesn't come out to save them. But the next second, when he sees a woman about to be raped, he immediately jumps in to save her! I just want to ask the author, is your sense of justice limited to adult women?

Taoists eat people, monsters eat people, nobles eat people. The dragon energy spell only works inside the city; outside, production capacity is insufficient, so how come there are still so many people?

After taking a look, it's similar to "The Legend of Immortality"—it starts strong but ends weakly. The beginning is all about scheming and cultivating immortality, but after entering the mortal world, it's all about saving the country and its people, which seems contradictory. It would have been better if it had cultivated into the Emperor of the Underworld and then overturned the table.

The author should write fewer female characters; the female characters in these two chapters are really poorly portrayed. First of all, the writing about Cousin Huang Xiaowu is too explicit, filled with the author's own fantasies. And the character of Peach Fairy is a villain who sucks people's marrow from the very beginning; I don't understand why the author would create ambiguity?

I came here hoping to catch a fisherman, but after reading over ten chapters, I found no fisherman's perspective; it was all about the protagonist getting caught up in some conspiracy, pretending to be stupid to outsmart others. I'm very disappointed. It seems I was the one who got hooked.

It's well-written, but it's too tiring for older bookworms like us. The Cthulhu mythos is already chaotic, and this hybrid power system, combining elements from different cultures, makes it even more confusing. The irrationality and lack of rigor aren't apparent. Furthermore, the premise that knowledge is the source of all evil and chaos is reactionary and absurd from its inception—isn't that exactly what the West is currently promoting?

I feel there are plot holes in the world-building in the book. Firstly, regarding the humanistic strength, the world in the book has a planetary worldview, not a flat earth, and it includes the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and various schools of thought, so it's not purely another world. Therefore, it should roughly correspond to Earth.

In all these years, this is the only book I've seen where someone wipes out their entire clan for their own sake. They're just an orphan on Qidian at best; you can't argue with that.

A discussion on Yu Lei's character position and plot, and I'd also like to request that this post be featured. The initial reason for this was that the author mentioned planning to become the King of Hell using the Book of Life and Death, which reminded me of this.